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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Middle High German lanne (“chain”) + -ац, the Middle High German from Old High German lanna (“metal sheet, platelet; chain”), from Vulgar Latin lanna from Latin lāmina (“sheet especially of metal”). Cognate with Slovene lanec (“chain”), Macedonian and Bulgarian ланец (lanec, “golden or silver chain”), South and Western Russian ланцу́г (lancúg, “chain”), Polish łańcuch (“chain”), Czech and Slovak lano (“cable, rope”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lǎːnat͡s/
- Hyphenation: ла‧нац
Noun
ла́нац m (Latin spelling lánac)
- chain
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References
- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “ланац”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 368